Eggenweiler Institute Quotes & Sayings

The great secret of morals is Love; or a going out of our own nature, and an identification of ourselves with the beautiful which exists in thought, action, or person, not our own. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

After the dustman's compliment, all others are insipid. — Georgiana Cavendish

He grinned lightly at me and I smiled back. Lord I loved this man. His smile was as bright as the sun. — Courtney Cole

I also find doing the mundane, everyday things in life has a calming, creative influence on me. Some of my best ideas come when I'm vacuuming or waiting in lines. — Gail Tsukiyama

Cheating is cheating. Some coaches believe if you can get away with it, cheating is smart. I have no respect for those guys. — Steve Spurrier

I wrote one terrible manuscript after another for a decade and I guess they gradually got a little less terrible. But there were many, many unpublished short stories, abandoned screenplays and novels ... a Library of Congress worth of awful literature. — Seth Grahame-Smith

Sugar ain't spoiled, she just a little bruised, is all. Bruises can heal and fade away to nothing. — Bernice L. McFadden

What can be more solemn and absurd, considered in the abstract, than, symbolizing the existence of the other sex by taking off a portion of your clothing and waving it in the air? — G.K. Chesterton

We can imagine the books we'd like to read, even if they have not yet been written, and we can imagine libraries full of books we would like to possess, even if they are well beyond our reach, because we enjoy dreaming up a library that reflects every one of our interests and every one of our foibles
a library that, in its variety and complexity, fully reflects the reader we are. — Alberto Manguel